Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions
Important Dates
Deadline for submission
May 15, 2007
Notification of Acceptance or Rejection
June 8, 2007
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline
July 07, 2007
Doctoral Consortium
- Overview
- Important Dates
- Aims and Objectives
- Doctoral Consortium Topics
- Academic Panel
- Submissions (The call is closed!)
- Participation
- Proceedings
- Programme
Overview
The second Doctoral Consortium for the AIME series of conferences will take place on Saturday 7th July 2007 in conjunction with the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 07) to be held in De Rode Hoed in central Amsterdam. The Doctoral Consortium will provide an opportunity for research students to present their on-going work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The Doctoral Consortium of AIME 07 will bring together Ph.D. students working in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine to discuss the specific problems they are researching; they will present their preliminary results and get advice from experienced researchers about various aspects of research training and preparation of a Doctoral Thesis.
The Doctoral Consortium will host the presentations by about 6 - 8 Ph.D. students; in addition there will be a general discussion. The AIME 07 Doctoral Consortium will be led by a number of prominent academic researchers with substantial experience in the field who will actively participate and contribute to the discussions.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the AIME 07 Doctoral Consortium is to support the research done by doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback from prominent scientists in the AIM field. The Doctoral Consortium will be rounded off by a discussion of general questions related to Ph.D. research. They include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:- Problem formulation
- Analysis and evaluation of the state of the Ph.D. thesis
- Research methodology
- Critical evaluation of one's own work
- etc.
- To provide a forum for students to present their current research and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers;
- To facilitate networking among Ph.D. students and senior researchers working in the same area
- To support students with information on academic, research, and industrial careers
Doctoral Consortium Topics
The AIME Doctoral Consortia will deal with the topics of the main conference. In 2007 these topics include but are not restricted to:
Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies
Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Decision Support Systems
AI and Statistical approaches: Decision Trees and Bayesian Belief Networks
Case-Based Reasoning, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Qualitative Modelling
Protocols, Guidelines, and Workflow Models
Natural Language Processing: Generation and Understanding
Biomedical Computer Vision, Imaging and Signal Interpretation
Intelligent Agents, Cooperative and Distributed Systems
Information Retrieval
Cognitive Modelling
Academic Panel
The AIME Doctoral Consortium will be conducted by an Academic Panel consisting of a number of leading researchers in the AIM field. The panel members come from a variety of disciplines and countries in order to provide a wide range of expertise. They are:
Michel Dojat, Grenoble, France
Frank van Harmelen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Elpida Keravnou, Nicosia, Cyprus
Peter Lucas, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Silvia Miksch, Vienna, Austria
Silvana Quaglini, Pavia, Italy
Yuval Shahar, Beer Sheva, Israel
Submissions
(The call is closed!)Unlike other conference submissions, a Doctoral Consortium submission addresses specifically the Ph.D. thesis! To apply for participation at the AIME07 Doctoral Consortium, please submit an overview/summary paper of your doctoral work to the contact address of the Doctoral Consortium organiser. The overview/summary paper should be between 2000 to 4000 words (approximately 4-8 pages). Submissions must be submitted electronically in postscript or pdf format.
The overview/summary paper should:- Clearly formulate the research question
- Identify the significant problems in the field of research
- Outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions
- Present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far
- Sketch the research methodology that is applied
- Point out the contributions of the applicant to the problem solution
- State in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem
Submissions will be reviewed by by at least two members of the Academic Panel and will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. It is expected that 6 - 8 submissions will be selected for presentation.
Participation
Participation in the meeting is open to anyone who wishes to attend and not just to the presenting Ph.D. students. Details on payment and registration will be announced later and will be posted on the AIME 07 web page.
Proceedings
Accepted papers will appear in workshop notes that will be distributed among registered participants.
Programme
Click here for the detailed Doctoral Consortium ProgrammeDoctoral Consortium Chair
Jim Hunter
jhunter@csd.abdn.ac.uk
Address
Department of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen, UK
Department of Computing Science
King's College
ABERDEEN AB24 3UE
UK
Tel: +44 1224 272287; Fax: +44 1224 273422